On the hunt for teen number activities? Try these BINGO games. They come in four different variations! What is it about those tricky teen numbers? My Four (almost five) has struggled to consistently remember her teen numbers. In the last few months, we’ve done a few simple activities to help her remember them. Simple (no printer ink required) games to practice the teen numbers Idea #1 One thing we’ve…

Looking for children’s picture books about Christmas? Here are 27 of them! This post contains affiliate links. Looking for fun seasonal books to read to your learners? In this post I share over 20 Christmas-themed books for young listeners. If you’re looking for Christmas books with a Christian theme, zoom to the second half of the post. As always, click here if you’d like a printable list. Turkey Claus, by Wendi…

Are you doing opposite activities with your preschooler? Be sure to read some picture books from this list of books about opposites! (This post contains affiliate links.) We love creating lists of our favorite children’s books! In fact, we’ve shared hundreds of our favorites in our letter of the week book lists. And you’ll find even more book lists in our collection of themed book lists. It’s time for another list!…

This post contains affiliate links. It’s so much fun to explore different versions of familiar tales! They’re also great for building the skills of comparing/contrasting. We’ve shared a variety of collections featuring familiar tales in our book lists. Today’s list is a fun one … Goldilocks and the Three Bears! If you’d like, click here for a printable list. Fun versions of Goldilocks & the Three Bears The 3 Bears and…

I’m always looking for new ways to teach short a word families. This matching game was a big hit at our house! Now that she knows all her letters and sounds and has other important pre-reading skills, I’ve been teaching my daughter (4 years, 9 months) to read short vowel words. I’m not going to tell you she’s been jumping up and down about it. In fact, until recently, she…

This post contains affiliate links. I grew up near a large naval base. Many of my friends had dads who served in the navy – dads who were “out to sea” at least half the year. I remember how excited they were when the deployment was nearing its end! I have a huge amount of respect for those who serve in the military and for the families that keep things…

This post about blending sounds contains affiliate links. I’m currently teaching my younger daughter to read. She knows all her letters, most of her sounds, and has all the pre-reading skills I recommend before teaching a child to read. But we’ve been hitting a little bit of a wall with blending sounds. She’ll see a word like this: wag, and she’ll say the sounds /w/ /a/ /g/ … “Pat?” Woah ……

Check out my giant list of fall books for preschool and up! This post contains affiliate links. Over the years, I’ve shared quite a few book lists about fall – because I absolutely love this season! I’ll start this post with a list of general books about fall. Down below, you can click on any of the images for even more books about fall … apples, pumpkins, leaves, scarecrows, Halloween,…

This post contains affiliate links. Looking for some fun fall-themed read alouds? Check out my list of books about scarecrows! If you’d like, click here for a list you can print and take to the library The Shy Scarecrow, by Mary Packard This is a sweet and simple early reader book about a scarecrow who feels he’s too shy to do his job. When the farmer gives him a loud hat…